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Despite what Fowler said, partitive constructions with neither seem to have taken mostly plural agreement until some time in the 1800s, as can be seen with the graphs for neither of them and neither of us Frequency of "neither of them is" vs "neither of them are"Frequency of "neither of us is" vs "neither of us are". But it does seems that singular agreement is most common today.

Neither of them is/are

Frequency of "neither of them is" vs "neither of them are"

Neither of us is/are

Frequency of "neither of us is" vs "neither of us are"

Despite what Fowler said, partitive constructions with neither seem to have taken mostly plural agreement until some time in the 1800s, as can be seen with the graphs for neither of them and neither of us Frequency of "neither of them is" vs "neither of them are"Frequency of "neither of us is" vs "neither of us are". But it does seems that singular agreement is most common today.

Despite what Fowler said, partitive constructions with neither seem to have taken mostly plural agreement until some time in the 1800s, as can be seen with the graphs for neither of them and neither of us. But it does seems that singular agreement is most common today.

Neither of them is/are

Frequency of "neither of them is" vs "neither of them are"

Neither of us is/are

Frequency of "neither of us is" vs "neither of us are"

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Despite what Fowler said, partitive constructions with neither seem to have taken mostly plural agreement until some time in the 1800s, as can be seen with the graphs for neither of them and neither of us Frequency of "neither of them is" vs "neither of them are"Frequency of "neither of us is" vs "neither of us are". But it does seems that singular agreement is most common today.